305 Quotes by Arthur Koestler

The conditions for original thinking are when two or more streams of research begin to offer evidence that they may converge and so in some manner be combined. It is the combination which can generate new directions of research, and through these it may be found that basic units and activities may have properties not before suspected which open up a lot of new questions for experimental study.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture.

This was written before the full extent of the holocaust was known, but that does not alter the fact that the large majority of surviving Jews in the world is of Eastern European –.

The integrative powers of life are manifested in the phenomena of symbiosis between organelles, in the varied forms of partnership within the same species or between different species; in the phenomena of regeneration, in lower species, of complete individuals from their fragments; in the re-formation of scrambled embryonic organs, etc. The self-assertive tendency is equally ubiquitous in the competitive struggle for life.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler.

Could some similar paradox be responsible for the crisis in modern physics – some unconscious blockage which prevents us from seeing the ‘obvious’, and compels us to persist in our own version of wavemechanical double-think?

An emotionally maladjusted species, we have the uncanny power of turning every blessing, including language, into a curse.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations.